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Microsoft may have ended support for Windows XP, but free antivirus software vendor Avast projects that for millions of users, that won’t mean squat.

Avast had previously reported that 23.6 percent of its users were still running Windows XP. In the days before Microsoft ended support of Windows XP on April 8, Avast surveyed close to 165,000 of those users. The results, released in in a blog post on Monday, indicate that 27 percent of Avast’s Windows XP users don’t plan on doing anything, even though Windows XP systems are theoretically vulnerable to attack from hitherto unreported vulnerabilities.

Avast itself has reported that Windows XP users are attacked several times more frequently than those running Windows 7.

I have an XP OS on my multi-boot Test box.
I've been waiting SOOOO LOONG to get rid of it, just to reduce my "Monthly maintenance time".
I only kept it to help some people that were still using XP, and asked me for help.
It was nice if I could test something on my test box, before I changed their PC.
Everyone I personally help is off XP now

Now I'm wondering if I should just leave the OS "installed as-is", and not use it.
Wait to see what really happens with all the folks that do use it "daily".

I've read some other threads here where people are using OLDER versions of Win such as 98, ME, 3.1, ... for whatever reason.

If this old Test Box (and me) is still kicking 10 years from now, it might be a nostalgic moment for me to see XP

Ironically enough, I actually nuked Avast off my P4 Windows XP machine when I performed its final Windows Update routine last week. Avast kept complaining about WU trying to do things, and that combined with its already annoying performance just convinced me to finally drop the anvil and nuke it.

Haven't installed a replacement yet, but seeing as I don't get any viruses anyway I doubt I'll actually look into it any further.

Since a lot of large organizations have elected to pay for continued XP support, I predict that the post 'end of support' XP security patches will get leaked to torrent + warez sites, thus enabling XP use for a few more years. I guess this will be balanced by a rash of 'click here to update XP' malware ads.

Since a lot of large organizations have elected to pay for continued XP support, I predict that the post 'end of support' XP security patches will get leaked to torrent + warez sites, thus enabling XP use for a few more years. I guess this will be balanced by a rash of 'click here to update XP' malware ads.

Yes, I wondered at the time how organisations paying for continued support will actually be supplied with these updates. What seems a certainty (to me) is that if they do appear on unauthorised sites then they would be an easy target to add malware to them......

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Nearly one-third of 800 people surveyed by the Messaging Anti-Abuse
Working Group (MAAWG) said they had responded to messages that were
probably spam. While some of the people clicked on links by accident or
even out of curiosity, twelve percent of...